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ReadyNASRND2000 bricked.
Hi guys.
My ReadyNASRND2000 is not powering on. Totally dead. Had a few powercuts recently - no idea if they were related.
What is my best next move - my last external back up was over ...
OK - thanks for the help guys.
Pretty sure i have a V1 readynasduo.
Looking a bit closer - my power supply light was not on! Now confirmed it is blown.
I have orderd a replacement power supply and will try that in first instance... if there are issues then at least I know about using the linux setup to try and get data off.Cheers for the help!
alcofribas wrote:
Does this mean that the RAID metadata is in a weird format, or at a weird location? I'm surprised that the use of a SPARC MPU (if that's what I have on mine) would make a difference in the configuration file format. Can you give a bit more information about this StephenB? Thanks
The sparc-based NAS require installing some older tools to access the RAID array, so it's not as simple as creating a live USB and booting it up.
First of all, if you have 4.2.x firmware you have an Intel CPU (Pro or Ultra), and not a Sparc CPU (NV, NV+ v1, Duo v1). The internals are quite different (including details of the RAID).
The RAID on the older sparc units does use some hardware-acceleration built into the sparc CPU chip. There are a few more details on that here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050404005773/en/Infrant-Technologies-Introduces-IT3100-Network-Storage-Processor. (Note Netgear purchased Infrant in 2007). Your system uses purely software RAID.
However, the sparc array can be mounted with standard linux tools - they are just old ones that are not included in new linux distributions. There method is outlined here: http://jim-st.blogspot.com/2012/07/mouning-readynas-drives-on-x86-systems.html. HOWEVER, that is specific to sparc-based ReadyNAS, not the x86 model that you have.
alcofribas wrote:
The thing simply won't turn on when I press the On button. It's not a power supply failure
Are you sure? If only the 5V is working, the LCD and some other stuff will power up, but the system won't boot.
Try removing the disks (labeling by slot so you preserve the order), and then power up the NAS. See if it gives you a "no disks" status on the LCD. If it does, then install RAIDar 4.3.8 on your mac, and see if it detects the NAS (and what status it gives you). https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar
There are other causes of failure to boot - disk failures and a full OS partition are two others.
alcofribas wrote:
five years of use in a RAID1 configuration.
RAID-1 has the advantage of simpler recovery, since there is no RAID striping. There is a complication in the sparc-based systems, as the RAID "parity" disk can't be accessed from linux. But that doesn't apply to your system.
OK - thanks for the help guys.
Pretty sure i have a V1 readynasduo.
Looking a bit closer - my power supply light was not on! Now confirmed it is blown.
I have orderd a replacement power supply and will try that in first instance... if there are issues then at least I know about using the linux setup to try and get data off.
Cheers for the help!
So - new power supply working. Disks being read fine.
Lesson learned - going to try and do better with my backup schedule.
and have a newer NAS on order anyway - probably time to upgrade. Hopefully the switch over of disks will be succesful.
Cheers for the help.
doccy wrote:
Hopefully the switch over of disks will be succesful.
Another option is to get new disks for the new NAS, and re-purpose the RND2000 as a backup NAS. Then use the frontview backup jobs to make daily backups of your main NAS shares.
Hmmm - that is a clever idea actually. Just trying to think of the pros and cons then...
I have a new disk coming, and an enclosure that will let me attach by USB.
So... i can plug the enclosure into my new NAS... and leave it there and (presumably) can use it to do backups daily of the main NAS?
Or... can use the old NAS to back up the new NAS (with one disk in it probably - just to save money).
End result the same?
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